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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Aug 2, 2014
- 2 min
Ellis Island, Where Past Generations of Us Came First: Everyday Magic, Day 810
Forest, about to enter the building his great-grandparents passed through to make a life here. Yesterday, Forest and I went, for the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Jun 30, 2014
- 4 min
To All the Young Adults I Love: Everyday Magic, Day 806
Now that all three of our children are young adults, I realize how difficult it is to be moseying around on not-completely-fully-formed...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Oct 14, 2013
- 2 min
You Can Go Home Again Even If It’s Someone Else’s Home: Everyday Magic, Day 740
Residents present and past Within moments, Adam, the man who lives with his wife in the house where I lived from ages eight to 19, was...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Mar 25, 2011
- 1 min
From a Hidey Hole in Eighth Day Books: Everyday Magic, Days 246-247
How does a Jewish girl get to hang in this core of the Wichita Lebanese Orthodox community, and in the sweet attic offices no less? My...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Mar 22, 2011
- 1 min
The Secret of Life is No Secret: Everyday Magic, Day 244
In the movie City Slickers, the Billy Crystal character searches for the secret of life, which a grizzled cowboy played to perfect by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Jan 18, 2011
- 2 min
The Impossible & Miraculous: Remembering Dad: Everyday Magic, Days 183-184
My dad — Hugh Melvyn Goldberg, but everyone called him Mel — was an impossibly difficult person to know, let alone be related to, so much...